8 PREFACE. 



influence, sooner or later, upon the community. (#) 

 They spoke to me as loudly of a sense of injury, and 

 of a reliance upon the justice of future ages, as the 

 opening of the Novum Organum speaks with the 

 consciousness of power : (6) 



FRANCISCUS DE VERULAMIO 

 SIC COG1TAVIT. 



There was also something to me truly affecting in 

 the disclosure of tender natural feeling in the short 

 sentence referring to his mother, which, spanning a 

 whole life between the cradle and the grave, seemed 

 to record nothing else worthy of a tribute of affection. 



Thus impressed I resolved to discover the real 

 merits of the case. 



I found that the subject had always been involved 

 in some mystery. Archbishop Tennison, the admirer 

 of Lord Bacon, and the friend of Dr. Rawley, his 

 domestic chaplain, thus mentions it in the Baconiana : 

 &quot; His lordship owned it under his hand, (c) that he 

 was frail, and did partake of the abuses of the times ; 

 and surely he was a partaker of their severities also. 

 The great cause of his suffering is to some a secret. 

 1 leave them to find it out by his words to King 



() In a former will (see Baconiana, p. 203) there is the same 

 wish expressed, not in such polished terms. The sentence is, 

 &quot; For my name and memory, I leave it to foreign nations and to 

 mine own countrymen, after some time be passed over/ 



(/;) FRANCIS OF VERULAM THOUGHT THUS. 



(c) lu his letter to King James, March 25, 1620, in the 

 Cabala, 



